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IT HAPPENS WHEN WE SING About the Film & How to Watch
WE BEGAN TO SING About the Film & How to Watch
IT HAPPENS WHEN WE SING Media Resources
WE BEGAN TO SING Media Resources
IT HAPPENS WHEN WE SING Photo Gallery
WE BEGAN TO SING Photo Gallery
Screenings & Partnerships
Singing & Resistance
Celebrating Pete Seeger

THE FILMMAKERS
CONTACT US
RISE UP SINGING Songbook
RISE UP SINGING Large Print Edition

CONTACT US

Polly Wells, Director/Producer

Candida Paltiel, Producer

info@songkeepers.ca

Terra Nova Films Distributor, It Happens When We Sing terranova.org

Song leaders Annie Patterson and Peter Blood attending the Beacon Sloop Club’s monthly songfest in Beacon, NY (February 2013) Photo credit: Polly Wells

Singer-songwriter Reggie Harris at Rise Again launch event, Hadley MA (October 2015). Photo credit: Polly Wells

Student volunteers registering voters in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. Photo credit: Herbert Randall, McCain Library, Univ. of Southern Mississippi

A Rise Up Singing community sing organized by Young Tradition Vermont in Burlington, VT (October 2013) Photo credit: Polly Wells

Pete Seeger and friends singing at the Moratorium Against the Vietnam War in Washington DC, November 15, 1969. Photo credit: U.S. National Archives and Records

Folksinger Pete Seeger at his home in Beacon, NY (February 2013) Credit: Polly Wells

Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bernice Reagon, Cordell Reagon, Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, Pete Seeger, and Theodore Bikel singing “We Shall Overcome” at Newport Folk Festival (July 1963). Photo credit: Rowland Sc

Rise Again songbook launch with Charlie King, Peter Blood, Terry Leonino, Greg Artzner, Annie Patterson, and Sandy O, in Hadley, MA (October 2015).